DBs I've shunned most of my career. So some learning curve can't be evaded. Assuming you're doing a small application with standard features, you should be abl

DBs I've shunned most of my career. So some learning curve can't be evaded. Assuming you're doing a small application with standard features, you should be able to pick up the basics over a weekend. It is a different story if you have to scale to tons of users, improve performance etc, but for a normal application, designing a bunch of tables shouldn't be hard. The backend layer for me is unchartered territory This might take a bit more work than the DB. My you know JS, so maybe you could pick nodeJS for the backend?